This event gave Ivan the Great's second wife Sophia the justification to launch a cultural overhaul of the Muscovite court. A key account of it comes from Cardinal Isidore of Kiev, who described hastily swapping clothes with a corpse in a letter to Pope Nicholas V. In the wake of this event, Philip the Good got his drink on at the Feast of the Pheasant. A fortress with towers named for three prominent generals, the (*) Rumeli Hisari, was built prior to this event, which saw key mercenary participation by Genoese captain Giovanni Giustiniani and a Hungarian metallurgist named Orban, who constructed shockingly massive artillery. A chain stretching from the Galata Tower
This event gave Ivan the Great's second wife Sophia the justification to launch a cultural overhaul of the Muscovite court. A key account of it comes from Cardinal Isidore of Kiev, who described hastily swapping clothes with a corpse in a letter to Pope Nicholas V. In the wake of this event, Philip the Good got his drink on at the Feast of the Pheasant. A fortress with towers named for three prominent generals, the (*) Rumeli Hisari, was built prior to this event, which saw key mercenary participation by Genoese captain Giovanni Giustiniani and a Hungarian metallurgist named Orban, who constructed shockingly massive artillery. A chain stretching from the Galata Tower forced a fleet to be dragged overland to reach the Golden Horn in this event, which ended with three days of loot-tastic pillaging. Seeing Constantine XI succumb to Mehmed II's Ottoman forces, for 10 points, name this 1453 siege of the Byzantine capital.
This event gave Ivan the Great's second wife Sophia the justification to launch a cultural overhaul of the Muscovite court.
The {Fall} of {Constantinople} [accept any reasonable equivalent {involving something bad happening} to {Constantinople}]